"Mexican Voices of the Border Region is a novel addition to the growing literature on borders, transborder communities, and using borders for understanding United States–Mexico relations. The moving stories-of those who cross the border for their work and do not experience that crossing as particularly liberating-are very compelling and have broad appeal."
-Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon, and author of Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon

 

How the border shapes the experiences and opportunities of Mexicans on each side

Contents

Foreword, by Arthur Schmidt
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Lived Borders
1. Living on the Agricultural Frontier
2. Home, Sweet Industrial Home
3. Sex without Kisses, Love with Abuse
4. A Straight-Dealing Drug Trafficker
5. An Indigenous Woman Street Vendor
6. A Caregiver Commuter
7. A Border Acrobat
8. The Mexicali Panther
9. A Young Mexican American
10. Guarding the American Dream
Conclusion: Opportunity and Uncertainty
Notes
References
Index